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A Small Hongmu (hardwood) Scholar's Tray, 19th C.
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Pre 1900 item# 997521
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Ruyi Studio San Francisco
415.990.3524
Sold. Chia Yi City, Taiwan
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Ching Dynasty. A small desktop tray in the scholar’s taste of classic form, undecorated, with subtle attention to detail in its rounded corners and concave margins and fashioned from a single piece of hongmu. Hong-mu (lit. ‘red wood,’ but a hardwood unrelated to the California softwood called “redwood,” and also referred to as ‘black wood’ or ‘rose wood’), while less costly than zitan, was highly prized, nevertheless, and many items of hong-mu are to be found in the imperial collection. Of a ...click for details
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